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Safe water is theme of African science academies conference in Senegal

Date:11/9/2007

ese academy also is having an impact. "Since our establishment in 1999, we have been at the forefront of applying science and technology to the quest for solutions to the numerous health, poverty, energy, environmental, and other challenges facing our country and sub-Saharan Africa," Niang noted. "At the national level, the Senegalese academy has initiated a number of studies and stimulated debates on key issues, leading to recommendations for policymakers. At the international level, we have been very active with the InterAcademy Panel [a network of the world's science academies], the Network of African Sciences Academies, as well as ASADI."

Attendees at this year's ASADI conference will discuss workshops and studies that could be conducted by the African science academies to inform water-related policy decisions. Globally, a lack of safe water for drinking, sanitation, and hygiene contributes to the deaths of about 88 percent of the 1.5 million children under age 5 who die due to diarrhea every year, according to the United Nations. The problem is particularly stark in sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of people without access to sanitation has increased in recent years despite the U.N. Millennium Development Goal to halve by 2015 the proportion of the population without safe drinking water and sanitation.

"With water becoming an increasingly scarce resource worldwide, academies of science have an essential role in generating the evidence base that can guide wise policies to maximize benefits to human health and the environment," said Enriqueta C. Bond, president of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, N.C., and chair of the U.S. National Academies' Board on African Science Academy Development. "This meeting in Dakar brings together science academies from across Africa to discuss not just water science, but also how to organize and develop their capacities to address the concerns of their countries."

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